Daniel gets a lesson in wax from the Master. I have been active in my workshop / studio getting my silver (yeah, the real solid metal Sterling stuff) casting system ready for operation. I am really excited as I can see the shiny silver at the end of the tunnel. Maybe that‘s a train headlight… oh well. The process is much more complex than the average person can imagine. Although I have been studying the...
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Flying Free
The last few blog articles look like I have become momentarily obsessed with freedom. I can’t deny what I have written but I will give it a rest for awhile. Just one more little poke Pure freedom is Chaos. I once built a model radio control airplane with that name. That was about 40 years ago. This is a picture of what it looked like. I finished mine in a blue and metallic green color....
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I just posted a report about this cart over in The Hobbyist Workshop website. It is going to become a useful tool when I begin casting non ferrous metals using the lost wax process I and my daughter took a course last fall to discover how wax carving and lost wax casting is done. I will soon be doing it here in my shop. I will have a vacuum casting table setting on the hard...
Continue reading...Black Vulture
I was working in my garage on Sunday and noticed a Black Vulture chowing down on some road kill rabbit at the front of my house, near my driveway. It’s not everyday I see a Black Vulture (No it is NOT a Turkey Vulture) in my neighborhood. I have seen them several times while driving in the countryside. They are much larger than a crow and the grey head gives away that it is a...
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